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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Yup, academia is outrageously political.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I think it's safe to say that if the processors do not use partial address matches above address bit 11 when resolving load conflicts then they would not be vulnerable to an exploit which can gain access to partial address information
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Very interesting read! "it turns out a war crime is any war crime that you can condemn them for but they can’t condemn us for"
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I'm confused, isn't "Gamergate" like "Watergate"? How can you be on Gamergate's "side"? That's like... are you on Watergate's side?
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Does that make sense? The logic is that woolly mammoths would... am I reading this right? Tamp down the permafrost? Like, they'd literally just squish the ground on top of it to compact it and insulate the permafrost from rising temper
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
The Corporation Wars trilogy has some interesting ideas about what this could look like.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Chickens have this weird "IT'S BLEEDING. MURDER IT!" kinda vibe. There's literally rose-tinted glasses you can glue onto their beaks so they can't really perceive red. This prevents them from pecking each-other to d
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Assuming AGI takes off, why not?
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I agree we're not that close to complete automation. But one day we will be. What then? Society needs to have some sort of plan in place for people when there are too few, too difficult jobs left.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Regardless on your feelings about "socialism", you have to ask yourself: What will happen when automation comes for more and more jobs? If the means of production are all automated, what does that mean for our society? Do we r
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Yeah, when I first started playing around with node I accidentally published one of my "hello world"-like apps to NPM's public registry. There was definitely no warning or indication of the severity of the action I was undert
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I can't understate how bad changing "you'll be a Man, my son" to "you'll be an Adult, my child" would be. It would be like, in the pursuit of lowering your sodium intake, making bread without salt. Is it h
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I'll play the historical context card here. At the time the poem was written, that language perfectly evoked the image the author was going for.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I think it's very possible to read the last few lines in a non-gendered light. You have to want it to be misogynistic in order to interpret it as such.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
There's a perception among management that they need to remain competitive. The IT service truly isn't a oligopoly like telcos are. My company hasn't increased rates in over 4 years out of fear that we would lose business eve
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Reminds me of part of that poem by Kipling... "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Yes, but filing a police report against a client isn't good for business.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
I harness that mindset-spillover by playing board games as a hobby.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
> my ex as one of the answers. This one baffled me because we never lived together and never had a bank account or loan together Yikes. Where did they get that from? I wonder if they also collected tons of info from FaceBook like it seem
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Or maybe it's a neat, built-in, self-destruct sequence for the law. i.e. The law is only valid if we're confident it's his signature. As soon as digital signatures are proven insecure, we can no longer be certain the act was
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Can someone delegate other users to act as "moderators" in the comment section of their channel's videos? If not, it's like saying you can run a forum, but you have to moderate the whole thing yourself.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Probably an emotional thing, "set in stone", a sense of permanency, etc.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Generally speaking submissions should just match the <title> of the page... so if you want, write a blog post about it, then submit the blog post?
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
It's more like "trying to kickstart the network effect". It's kind of like how dating services buy and sell portfolios of user accounts so that they can pre-seed their services with apparent potential matches, thus attra
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
It is not obvious or tautological that removing a bad employee is more valuable than acquiring a superb employee.
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Actually I think it's quite possibly the worst definition of consciousness I've ever seen. At best (assuming conscious cannot be doubted) it's like saying "Cars are those things which move fast". In the sense that
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
So as soon as you start questioning your own consciousness you are immediately no longer considered "conscious"... So using this definition of consciousness, and looking at Plato's most famous quote: The unexamined life... is
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
If I doubt you are conscious, are you then, by definition, not conscious?
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Right, the title makes a claim, and their conclusion is that the opposite claim has failed to meet its burden of proof... Thinking that "because something has not met its burden of proof means that the opposite must be true" is a
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by mfoy_ 8y ago
Speaking as a consultant, that introduces a new host of headaches and problems...

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